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About the JMP

Background

The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP) has reported country, regional and global estimates of progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) since 1990. The JMP maintains an extensive global database and has become the leading source of comparable estimates of progress at national, regional and global levels. The 2015 update marked the end of the Millennium Development Goal period and the 2017 update established baseline estimates for monitoring the new Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets. 

WHO/UNICEF JMP Strategy 2021-2025

The JMP 5 year strategy (2021-2025) focuses on further enhancing global monitoring of drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in the context of the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The JMP has updated its vision and mission statements in line with the 2030 Agenda, and in 2017 updated its full name to the WHO/UNICEF Joint Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene.

Vision: progressive realization of universal access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and the reduction of inequalities in service levels by 2030

Mission: to produce reliable estimates of national, regional and global progress on WASH to inform decision making by government, donor and civil society organisations

Strategic aims:

  1. Normative role: to develop new indicators, methods and standards for enhanced national and global monitoring of WASH
  2. Global data custodian: to maintain global databases, produce reliable estimates of status, trends and inequalities, and to visualize and share data in accessible formats
  3. Country engagement: to provide technical advice, guidance materials and tools to support countries to collect and analyse data on inequalities and to report progress on WASH
  4. Integrated monitoring: to build new partnerships to integrate new sources of data and to analyse interlinkages between WASH and related SDG targets

The JMP Team

The JMP team consists of four full time professional staff and two part time administrative assistants. The JMP also employs short term consultants for specific tasks. The JMP is overseen jointly by the Coordinator of the Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health unit at WHO, the Chief of the Data and Analytics Section and the Chief of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Section at UNICEF.

Current full-time members of the JMP team

  1. Tom Slaymaker (Sr Statistics & Monitoring Specialist - WASH, UNICEF)
  2. Richard Johnston (Technical Officer - WASH, WHO)
  3. Ayca Donmez (Statistics & Monitoring Specialist, UNICEF)
  4. Jorge Bica (Statistics & Monitoring Specialist, UNICEF)
  5. Francesco Mitis (Technical Officer - Statistics, WHO)

Strategic Advisory Group

The JMP/GLAAS Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) was established in 2009 to provide independent advice on the continued development of the JMP as a the custodian of global data on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene. It meets twice every year and comprises leading experts in the field of drinking water, sanitation and hygiene as well as experts in statistics and global monitoring. SAG members are typically invited to serve as independent experts for a three year term (Terms of Reference).

Annual Reports

See the annual reports which detail the budget and activities of the JMP: